




No soul-searching here... after all, how intellectual can you be when your day consists of laundry and cleaning up after kids?
QUESTION:
what would happen if, as the Bible states occured, "the sun and the moon stood still in the sky?"
ANSWER:
If the sun stood still, the implication would be that the earth had stopped rotating on its axis; this would imply a large tangential acceleration during the short time when the earth stopped rotating during which catostrophic things would happen (like big buildings falling over). Since the main observed "motion" of the moon is also due to the earth's rotation, the answer would be the same for its stopping. If we meant the moon stopped in its orbit, then it would fall to the earth.